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This is good advice. My 9yr old reads adult fiction, so long as I have read it and don't think there's anything too "adult" in there. I'm saving Heinlein for his teen years lol.
This.
If you’re anything other than a digital artist/someone who genuinely prefers writing over typing, an iPad is just an extra tool for you to waste your money on.

I had one of the earlier versions and this was pretty much its only use case…
> writing this from memory

Gave me a chuckle ;)
Different how? I feel like people often say they want something different without at all describing what exactly they want different.

And then think whether that different thing is technologically feasible and economical and what % of the population would also actually want it.
Hazing is exactly what it is. It's a club and if you want to join the club you're going to have to go through the rituals. I hate participating in the charade but I do it with as much humanity and compassion as I can muster.
City of Wichita shuts down IT network after ransomware attack
I live in such a setup in Norway. Much smaller scales all up than anything in the us, but my little city has about 60k people in the metropolitan area.

Gives great options for food, culture and whatnot, but I am only one hour by train from the million plus capitol (Oslo). I telework and go in for meetings as needed. One and a half hour to drive to measure it in american terms hehe.

Kids love it too. Roam freely around the neighbourhood, buy area is dense enough that they have all the options for after school clubs and sports and we even have an eSport club now :)
> I don't want to bring both an iPad and Macbook on trips, but I need ______

Why not just make the iPad run MacOS and throw iPadOS into the garbage?
When you can do all inference at the edge, you can keep it disconnected from the network if you don't trust the data handling.

I happen to think they wouldn't, simply because sending this data back to Apple in any form that they could digest it is not aligned with their current privacy-first strategies. But if they make a device that still works if it stays disconnected, the neat thing is that you can just...keep it disconnected. You don't have to trust them.
I had a teacher in school who decided the best thing for people to read is to simply have the students choose the book they wanted to read for the month.

She'd then read the book and make a short quiz about it. She had several classes so she'd have to read a lot of books every month. But after a while books start to repeat, after all, kids will mostly get together and form groups to read certain novels they're interested in. And most of my classmates would all choose a sort of "minimal effort" book.

All in all, this is an experience I still remember to this day; even though it's been 15 years.

If we want children to read then you need a similar approach, a big part of the fun in reading is actually finding a book to read. The children should be motivated to find books they want to read and then share it with their peers; then perhaps the class can decide which of the books they will be reading together.
Did I miss something or did the article never describe how the technique works? (Despite the “How It Works” section
To be fair the ipod classic used a platter drive and ipads are high speed SSD storage. That being said, it's been years of the same storage options and at those prices it should be much higher, along with their iCloud storage offerings.
Not to mention those of us who are self-taught and don't do as well in formal learning environments. One can be higher functioning, but not learn the same as others. It's harder to work around at times, and I do have to use various coping mechanisms in practice (same as setting lots of alarms for meetings through the day). I don't always do as well in converting literal leet code pre-screenings online though. I'd rather do a take-home type assignment (actually make a solution for X) or a person to person screening, where I can ask followup questions to better understand what I'm solving for in context.
Use next DNS.
A decked out Mac Studio is like $7k for far less GPU power. I find that highly unlikely.
I prefer to know what I'm buying before paying for it.
The machine uses single-serve, single-use aluminum pods, which along with the machines are expected to be available next summer.

Of course, it's an attempt to be the next Keurig/Nespresso.
Out of curiosity, how many of them run at 120 FPS?

(honest question - I've never looked into it myself)
> At the moment, the Raspberry Pi Connect service has just a single relay (TURN) server, located in the UK.

Wow, one relay server! A company with rpi size should be able to do better. The problem the latency might render it useless, just use wireguard.
Really attractive, but i want to know if Google 'sells' your data in the ad-bidding process
Nobody's going to be aiming at nuclear silos in the middle of nowhere that are not only designed to withstand a nuclear attack, but may well have also launched by the time your missile arrives. US early Cold War targets have been declassified. [1] We did make efforts to target airfields where nukes would have launched from (prior to the ICBM), but those were valuable and weakly defended targets, regardless of whether the enemy's ships were already airborne or not. But a large chunk of our missiles were directed towards agriculture, industry, medicine product, and a large number of targets were justified as simply "population." The Soviet targets likely would have been more or less identical.

In nuclear war the goal will not be to eliminate the enemy's military - military's can be rebuilt. At the point of nuclear war absolutely all norms and rules of conflict will have been discarded. The goal is going to be to eliminate the enemy's entire country, such that he might never be a threat again. In such a situation I'd feel far safer standing near a nuclear bunker out in the middle of nowhere than I would in the middle of a high population, high economic value urban area.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/us/politics/1950s-us-nucl...
What's the heck with the April server bill
I just got the April server bill from Render for my side project that I have been building in public for a while now. The bill is for $14 and the project generates $0, how do I keep the project alive?

I am building [https://techinterviewexp.site](https://techinterviewexp.site), which is a platform where people can share their interview experiences and help others prepare for their interviews.
It has a good DAU count, that I keep sharing on X(@hsnice16).

I tried adding Google Ads to generate some revenue, but as we all know Google doesn't like good websites unless you make them messy so they can say that the site has lots of content.

I have also added my GitHub sponsor page link in the footer, so the community can help to keep this project alive, but I haven't had any luck so far.

Now, I am thinking of adding a closeable banner that will come from the bottom to notify that you can support this project.

What do you suggest?
(This project is also available to buy)
I found this article really odd. I thought for the majority of it that the author was conflating "goodness" of music with "survival". Saying all these songs disappeared into obscurity and that's okay because they were bad and we know they were bad because they disappeared into obscurity.

They even invoke "Survival of the Fittest" which often trips up high school kids who think fitness is strength or some other specific quality (like goodness) and you have to correct them that the definition of fitness is "that thing that gives a population survival".
Sounds interesting. Where is it?
Headless UI v2.0 for React
Don’t forget - they solder in the flash too even though there is no technical reason to do so.

Unless “impossibly far profit margin” is a technical requirement.
> This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy

Apple has never been privacy-first in practice. They give you the illusion of privacy but in reality it's a closed-source system and you are forced to trust Apple with your data.

They also make it a LOT harder than Android to execute your own MITM proxies to inspect what exact data is being sent about you by all of your apps including the OS itself.
For me indie gaming is going through its own aggravating phase right now, but it seems most people aren't bothered by it. The quality of the games is better than ever, but every indie title now goes through Early Access, sometimes for several years. By the time the game is released the hype cycle has already finished.

For people like me who play games just a couple of hours a week, I have no interest in playing an unfinished game. I have a library of games bigger than I could ever play and I will always skip the EA stuff.
> A GPU does other things.

Yes, and so does the M4.

> It just happens to be it’s good at neural stuff too.

No, it's no coincidence. Nvidia has been focusing on neural nets, same as Apple.

> There’s another difference too. Apple’s NPU is integrated in their chip.

The neural processing capabilities of Nvidia products(Tensor Cores) are also integrated in the chip.

> A 4090 is not integrated into a CPU.

Correct, but nobody ever stated that. Apple stated that M4 was faster than any AI PC today, not that it's the fastest NPU integrated into a CPU. And by the way, the M4 is also a GPU.

> I don’t know if the official definition draws a distinction that would exclude GPUs or not.

A NPU can be a part of a GPU, a CPU or it's own chip.

> If they had said it was the fastest way to run neural networks I would have questioned it,

They said fastest NPU, neural processing unit. It's the term Apple and a few others use for their AI accelerator. The whole point of a AI accelerator is performance and efficiency. If something does a better job at it then it's a better AI accelerator.
I think it's financially smart to attempt to no longer be at the behest of a landlord's whim to raise rent. Home ownership is not even close to being out of reach for young people (like myself), but living in or near a city center absolutely is.
It's unified memory which means the SSD controller is also using the system memory. So more flash needs more memory.
What's inside of the locked down door? Is that just the main door in? I'm assuming that hallway is the museum.

And what is on the map with the circles? Is that a geographical map or some sort of system map?

And what shock do the Shock Isolators stop? Shock from a launch?
> but to posit that Aumasson was compromised by a TLA(with no evidence) and that this paper is the result is pure conspiracy thinking.

Except we have some evidence that the NSA has compromised processes in exactly this way before. The OP was just asking a question and suggesting a likely and known mechanism for perfidy, he didn't actually posit that it was true.
I remember reading a long time ago (think pre-intel macs) that game developers never developed for macs.

However if they did, the games would sell because the mac people wanted games and there were so few available they would buy anything.

problems of a closed ecosystem.
More efficient yes, clearly so.

I wonder though if it is more fragile than the alternative. Are social and economic systems more robust when they're distributed across smaller urban and rural areas?

Are megalopolis settings susceptible to long tail risks that smaller urbs don't face?
Don't bother the fanboys have an Apple can't do anything wrong/malicious. At this point it's closer to a religion than ever.

You would be amazed at the response of some of them when I point out some shit Apple does that make their products clearly lacking for the price, the cognitive dissonance is so strong they don't know how to react in any other way than lying or pretending it doesn't matter.
Does anyone know of a good book to understand colour theory/colour spaces/etc.?
I've been learning more and more about colour at both my job and just in my free time, but I don't really have a good grasp on all of these concepts. Does anyone have a good comprehensive book that covers all these topics? I don't necessarily need all the math behind things like gamma conversion, although perhaps that'd be beneficial as well.

Any input welcome, thanks in advance :)
I keep my notifications for almost all of my apps turned off. This includes "important" apps like Google Maps and Google Drive.

I only keep notifications ON for apps that I really really care about, which are mostly communication apps like WhatsApp, Signal etc.

I don't miss a thing. I feel mobile notifications are a cesspit full of crap. Every fucking website or app or game wants to send you notifications, and they're almost always 100% useless.

I use a Samsung phone and I in fact put all the muted apps in "deep sleep" as well.
Agree it seems odd. One thing the children in my life are NOT lacking is random interests. Sports books are a great avenue and often highly accessible for younger readers. Pretty much any hobby/niche interest has books that are suitable. Kid likes animals? Give them 'The Soul of an Octopus'. Kid likes scifi movies? Give em 'Childhood's End'. Its really not a challenge when you know them well.
That article says "we're building slums for rich people".
If all that energy could go in something useful like improving trains that would be amazing. Us wanting it or not, cars are something from the past.
I really appreciate how Zed tries to tailor make and ensure their app looks and feels native on Linux.

One thing that scares me with it though is the lock in of the multiplayer features. I can see it forcing me to use it and not my preferred editor, because other people use Zed.

Would love it if we were not only platform independent but also editor independent regardless of social pressure.
The iPod Classic had spinning rust. Don't pretend it's comparable with a modern SSD.
Without data, we're firmly restricted to the realm of hypotheticals, but even there I'm struggling to comprehend how this would work. Can you provide an example of such an effect?
Seconding the "audiobooks count" that Imzadi said, I'd like to note that the Martian audiobook is exceptional, and I've heard that others by Weir are excellent as well.

You might enjoy reading _short_ novels. I really liked the "All Systems Red" series, each of them feels short enough to read in a day. If you enjoyed Harry Potter, you might also enjoy the Invisible Library series, or maybe the Harry Dresden novels. They both felt like fun-pulpy romps through magical worlds.

Maybe you can convince your brain that reading at bedtime is a good use of time because it promotes healthy sleeping by not being on a screen. ;) (It hasn't worked for me, I still have a backlog two shelves long.)
Fair enough, I was being a bit flippant. It’d be nice if that existed, but I suspect Apple doesn’t want it to for market segmentation reasons.
As far as I know, the argument for forcing TikTok to divest is simply that Americans don't trust a Chinese owned company not to be used as a secret CCP weapon

Essentially yes, and that seems like a perfectly valid argument to me.

TikTok hasn't actually done anything to merit that mistrust

They've lied about storing data in China and spied on journalists. But that actually doesn't matter; the point is that it's crazy to allow the Chinese Communist Party to have access to loads of personal information about hundreds of millions of Americans.
It was in Chicago, west of downtown
Books are trending shorter since the advent of ebooks since a short ebook looks the same as a long ebook. So that DEFINITELY doesn’t seem causal to me.

I’ve also been hearing for a long time how novellas are the future of books and people simply don’t buy them and they remain a niche format and I don’t see that changing.
Yes, that video looks to be the "REACT" [0] upgrade that was done in the 1990s. It specifically says it changed it to make the operators sit side-by-side.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Execution_and_Combat_Tar...
Can you run plumbing through the ceiling of the floor below? I'd think there's plenty of free space there but it would mean you have access to your neighbor's pipes.
Apple already fixed this with the Mac: they stock a handful of configurations most likely to sell, and then everything else is a custom order shipped direct from China. The reason why Apple has to sell specific RAM/storage pairs for iPads is that they don't have a custom order program for their other devices, so everything has to be an SKU, and has to sell in enough quantity to justify being an SKU.
The physical size of the socket and having the connections on the edge means you're forced to have much longer traces. Longer traces means slower signalling and more power loss due to higher resistance and parasitics.

This[1] Anandtech article from last year has a better look at how the LPCAMM module works. Especially note how the connectors are now densely packed directly under the memory chips, significantly reducing the trace length needed. Not just on the memory module itself but also on the motherboard due to the more compact memory module. It also allows for more pins to be connected, thus higher bandwidth (more bits per cycle).

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21069/modular-lpddr-becomes-a...
After a goose chase to confirm, it was John Spencer playing in The West Wing. Not an actual CoS...
> I’m baffled that so many people who sell coffee for a living, think they know a lot about it, and act like coffee snobs, don’t seem to understand what cold brew even is.

Anecdotally, this is something I've experienced in the USA more than in Europe. When I ask a question in store a lot of times I get the feeling that the person answering considers themselves an expert and quickly make claims that I know for a fact are false.

It's like in the USA saying "I don't know, but let me get someone who does" isn't allowed.
I want a tool that I can use to feed it a block of text or a URL to a website and it will give me an LLM and a text prompt that would yield said text/website.

I decided to ask ChatGPT 3.5 about what a Westpoint Academy instructor would have to say about defending a city and defensive tactics beyond those commonly known and the answer was not nearly as interesting.
Crazy timing, I'm listening to that series now, it's great!
It sounds like you enjoy books, the problem is convincing yourself you deserve to take time to read them. To quiet that anxiety:

> The habit of reading is a meaningful way to meditatively intake large portions of information. Reading helps with creativity, focus, and communication. Reading light-hearted, entertaining books increases these skills while preserving focus for work in a way that reading the latest O'Reilly book does not, while making reading non-fiction books in the future easier because you've been practicing reading.

Separately, humans are not machines. In general, we aren't wired to constantly be doing things, and taking time to play or to enjoy stories or to do absolutely nothing is an entirely necessary maintenance task.

Removing joy and rest from your life for productivity is the biological equivalent of accumulating technical debt. This debt can intensify until you need a complete rewrite; when this happens, it's called burn out, and it's kinda really bad.
> Consider a certified tamper-resistant operating system which cryptographically certifies the versions of software it operates, and prohibits uncertified processes from running.

If I own the hardware, I can decide how the software is executed, including containerizing your certification processes to make them feel warm and fuzzy and happy but in reality they are running inside a simulation.

If push comes to shove I could theoretically manufacture my own RAM sticks that copy everything and your OS wouldn't even know, but there's a 99% chance I could successfully pull it off at the kernel virtualization level.
Considering what some people do with basement spaces and almost no ventilation at all, I'm going to hazard a guess that a windowless interior room is not a dealbreaker.
No. There is a bit of a crisis with commercial real estate. Locally there are several stories of large businesses slashing their footprint, say, in half or selling buildings outright.
How is this different than Dropbox, One Drive, iCloud or any of a dozen cloud sync tools?

What problem does it solve for ownership? How is saving a file to this service any more secure or available than saving it to Dropbox?

What "deeply integrated suite of products" are you talking about? Seems like you are just talking about cloudsync to me.
What do you mean when you say that gnuplot is a GUI program?
Thank you for clearing this up: A book I was reading attributed this to Andrew Weils, where it was Andre Weil, and later in the book it discussed Andrew Weils, who was really Sir Andrew Wiles - who benefited greatly from the contributions of Andre Weil. Let us keep our w(e)iles straight.
Those services are in very limited places in interior walls. You may have an electrical line running to the outlets, but you be extremely unlikely to hit sewer or water. If you do, the gap ti the left or right is extremely unlikely to also have the same services.
Yes, there’re a handful of apps that use the neural engine to fine tune models to their data.
> Do Surgeons need to perform mock surgeries before they are hired?

They must have a degree from an accredited institution before they can begin practicing, and part of earning the degree is operating on cadavers, so, yes.

> Do Accountants need to complete a test audit?

In order to be a Certified Public Account in the US, you must pass the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination, which has a section on auditing and has "task-based simulations", which are:

"CPA Task-Based Simulations are scenario-based questions on the CPA Exam. They are a large part of what makes the CPA Exam so difficult. Each one will introduce a situation, provide data in the form of charts, memos, and emails, and require you to answer a series of questions."

So, I think yes?

> Do Lawyers perform a mock trial?

In order to be a lawyer in the US, you generally need to pass a state's bar examination. Most of those include "performance tests" which require the testee to simulate part of the job of being a lawyer. I don't know think mock trials are part of that, but writing a legal brief or doing other typical lawyer work is.

My understanding is that going to trial is a small fraction of what most lawyers do and lawyers going in that direction will gain that experience as junior members of a law firm.